Dapper Andy
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it's one of the nuances of sports; an unwritten rule, but a widely accepted understanding. once the win is assured, you try to play your second/third string to make the remainder of the game more equal and to give the scrubs a chance to get some game time experience
when a coach does that, and does not take advantage of every opportunity to run up the score, then he is found to have been a 'good sport'
Benching your starters when a win is assured makes good coaching sense but I don't think there is anything wrong in doing everything you can to win as long as you're not being a dick about it. Sportsmanship is a two way street and sometimes a losing team has to learn you occasionally get the snot beaten out of you but you still have to be a good sport about it. Regardless of how much better one team was then the other, the winning team should not have been expected to basically quit.